Fri Aug 4, 2023 – 12:34 pm EDT
(American Thinker) — History provides examples of third-party presidential candidates swinging elections. Ross Perot denied George H.W. Bush a second term in 1992, running on the Reform Party ticket and garnering 18.9 percent of the popular vote. Bill Clinton won with only 43.0 percent.
In 1980, Congressman John Anderson ran an incoherent candidacy yet captured 6.6 percent of votes. Reagan prevailed over Carter 50.7 percent to 41.0 percent. It is unclear if Anderson’s bid was engineered by Reagan’s campaign to split votes from Carter. Teddy Roosevelt’s 1912 third-party run split Republican votes, yielding Woodrow Wilson, the first progressive leftist president.
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Now comes RFK Jr., with a platform exhibiting substantial overlap with the MAGA agenda. Kennedy’s recent interview with James O’Keefe reveals his targeting of MAGA voters, especially younger ones unfamiliar with his family’s dark history.
I think because of my ability to attract Independents and many, many Republicans that I actually have probably a better chance of winning the election than any other Democratic candidate.
Trump’s Achilles heel was allowing himself to be bamboozled into supporting the COVID narrative of the pharmaceutical-medical-globalist complex. Because of his congenital reluctance
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